James R Irwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4197969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James R Irwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | James R |
| FAMILY NAME | Irwin |
| SIGNATURE | IRWIN J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Michigan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1947 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Infant mortality among US whites in the 19th century: New evidence from childhood sex ratios
BACKGROUNDBasic facts of infant mortality in the 19 th -century United States are largely unknown due to a lack of data on births and infant deaths.Contradictory views have emerged from previous research.Estimates from life table exercises with US census data, published in the most recent ( 2006) Historical Statistics of the United States, suggest that infant mortality among US whites circa 1850-1880 was substantially worse than in much of contem…
The Narrowing of the Gender Wealth Gap across the Nineteenth-Century United States
Shammas (1994) documented the expansion of women's wealth holding across the nineteenth-century United States, explaining it as the result of the married women's property acts (MWPAs) passed in most of states starting circa 1840. We look at the timing of the expansion of women's wealth holding, drawing on archival and published evidence from probate records. Starting with Richmond, Virginia, and its agricultural hinterland, we consider a variety …
Slavery in the Development of the Americas
Slavery in the Development of the Americas brings together work from leading historians and economic historians of slavery. The essays cover various aspects of slavery and the role of slavery in the development of the southern United States, Brazil, Cuba, the French and Dutch Caribbean, and elsewhere in the Americas. Some essays explore the emergence of the slave system, and others provide important insights about the operation of specific slave …
Economic Progress in the Postbellum South? African-American Incomes in the Mississippi Delta, 1880–1910
Explaining the Decline in Southern per Capita Output after Emancipation
Exploring the affinity of wheat and slavery in the Virginia Piedmont
Galen on the Temperaments
(1947). Galen on the Temperaments. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 45-64
Explaining the Decline in Southern per Capita Output after Emancipation
Exploring the affinity of wheat and slavery in the Virginia Piedmont
The Narrowing of the Gender Wealth Gap across the Nineteenth-Century United States
Shammas (1994) documented the expansion of women's wealth holding across the nineteenth-century United States, explaining it as the result of the married women's property acts (MWPAs) passed in most of states starting circa 1840. We look at the timing of the expansion of women's wealth holding, drawing on archival and published evidence from probate records. Starting with Richmond, Virginia, and its agricultural hinterland, we consider a variety …
Economic Progress in the Postbellum South? African-American Incomes in the Mississippi Delta, 1880–1910
Galen on the Temperaments
(1947). Galen on the Temperaments. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 45-64
Galen on the Temperaments
(1947). Galen on the Temperaments. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 45-64
Exploring the affinity of wheat and slavery in the Virginia Piedmont
Explaining the Decline in Southern per Capita Output after Emancipation
Economic Progress in the Postbellum South? African-American Incomes in the Mississippi Delta, 1880–1910
Slavery in the Development of the Americas
Slavery in the Development of the Americas brings together work from leading historians and economic historians of slavery. The essays cover various aspects of slavery and the role of slavery in the development of the southern United States, Brazil, Cuba, the French and Dutch Caribbean, and elsewhere in the Americas. Some essays explore the emergence of the slave system, and others provide important insights about the operation of specific slave …
The Narrowing of the Gender Wealth Gap across the Nineteenth-Century United States
Shammas (1994) documented the expansion of women's wealth holding across the nineteenth-century United States, explaining it as the result of the married women's property acts (MWPAs) passed in most of states starting circa 1840. We look at the timing of the expansion of women's wealth holding, drawing on archival and published evidence from probate records. Starting with Richmond, Virginia, and its agricultural hinterland, we consider a variety …
Infant mortality among US whites in the 19th century: New evidence from childhood sex ratios
BACKGROUNDBasic facts of infant mortality in the 19 th -century United States are largely unknown due to a lack of data on births and infant deaths.Contradictory views have emerged from previous research.Estimates from life table exercises with US census data, published in the most recent ( 2006) Historical Statistics of the United States, suggest that infant mortality among US whites circa 1850-1880 was substantially worse than in much of contem…
Economics (5 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Agricultural economics (2 works) · Agriculture (2 works)